Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Make friends before you need them

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.